In the meantime, the menu includes plenty of the regular customers’ longtime favorites. For one, the non-smoking section is much larger than the one at the old location.Īs part of the revamp and relocation, Jasmine will eventually introduce a new menu. All in all, the place has a much more family-friendly vibe than the old location, which was exactly what Salman hoped for.
The hookah area is a casual spot to sit and smoke the night away.
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On a weekday night, you might find the covered patio full of people grubbing down on Middle Eastern dishes. “I’ve got all my regulars plus all kinds of new people coming in.” “It is a bringing a whole new clientele,” he said. Now, he’s already seeing new customers and longtime regulars alike.
Salman, 42, said the entire process of moving the business to a new location took about two years. The new property is an upgrade, to say the least, with a smoke-free restaurant, a hookah area and a full-size supermarket stocked with foods and ingredients from across the Middle East. It’s right off Central Expressway and Spring Valley Road, not far from the original spot. Last week, Salman and his family inaugurated their new location at 820 S. For years, he built up a reliable clientele from around Dallas-Fort Worth offering halal food cooked and prepared according to Islamic customs. But he quickly went about transforming it into a proper Mediterranean and Palestinian restaurant equipped with a smoke-free, family-friendly area and a separate area for the dedicated smokers. When Nameer Salman bought the business in 2012, Jasmine was a standard college-age hookah lounge and hangout. For more than two decades, Jasmine Café sat on the tiny, downtown-like strip lining Richardson’s Main Street, serving classic Mediterranean dishes, lots of thick (and very strong) Turkish coffee and of course, hookah.